Shri suvarchas
>>The bride's father on seeing him requests him to accept his girl and take the householder's life which evidently proves that marriages were decided based only on other counts <<
IMHO,The process of marriage,is a method,to organise pro-creation,with a family as foundation,to build civil society.Monogamy was adviced and asked to practice,just to maintain harmony.At a base level,humans are no different from animals.Animals also pro-create,give birth,and wander happily or haplessly as the case maybe,live and die.Its only us humans,have made things up,and claim whatever we want to claim,and sometime make it appear as truth......
sb